Muff's Playlist

Little Miss Muffet

Sat on her tuffet

Eating her curds and whey.

Down came a spider

And sat down beside her

And frightened Miss Muffet away.

This nursery rhyme most believe was written in 1805, about Mary Queen of Scots who was frightened by religious reformer John Knox​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​. Well I think speculators with this particular view are 184 years off. Because I'm absolutely certain that this rhyme was written for my sister, Casey. She even adopts the nickname amongst family and close friends of "Muffs". (Riddle solved. Take that(!) literary scholars.​)

So that's why Casey's playlist is called what it is.

She's pretty much my best friend too. Someone who can make me furious and laughing just by looking at my cross little face. I love her to bits.

Anyway, so every holiday we make car CD's which get scratched and overplayed, and loved songs are ripped to shreds until we hear them in disgust and skip to the end where the under loved, under played songs await their death. A particular favourite song of both of ours came from two CD's that different friends had given us each. "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is this song.

I love(d) it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

(Must not show Casey this video. This she would classify as "too arty" (A term that I am too used to hearing from her from my clothes to my hair to my music.) )

Our home is on the Bitou river in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. We really are spoilt, it's stunning here. South Africa's stunning. Africa is. (Here's a blog on the area around Plett if you want to check it out: http://www.letterdash.com/bitoublog)

(If you want to see what our home really looks like, go to www.bitou.co.za -The pros to owning a guest lodge? Your house has a website of its own-)

So I drew our house in pen, and tried to give the ink the whole Leonardo-De-Vinci-sketches-of-the-human-heart vibes, and top right I planted a heart in our garden, because home is where the heart is. Bottom right is just a labelling key to the heart above, which I liked the look of.

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I used mixed media for this drawing. Gel pen, ball point pen (for the purple look) and brown pencil colour.

This, I think, is my favourite installment so far.

(Only the best for my sister.)